sputl(3X) UNIX System V(Specialized Libraries) sputl(3X)
NAME
sputl, sgetl - access long integer data in a machine-independent fashion
SYNOPSIS
cc [flag ...] file ... -lld [library ...]
#include <ldfcn.h>
void sputl (long value, char *buffer);
long sgetl (const char *buffer);
DESCRIPTION
sputl takes the four bytes of the long integer value and places them in
memory starting at the address pointed to by buffer. The ordering of the
bytes is the same across all machines.
sgetl retrieves the four bytes in memory starting at the address pointed
to by buffer and returns the long integer value in the byte ordering of
the host machine.
The combination of sputl and sgetl provides a machine-independent way of
storing long numeric data in a file in binary form without conversion to
characters.
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